A special Texas on the Potomac recap of the Rick Santorum campaign

Santorum relived the happy moments of his campaign during his speech on Tuesday effectively ending his campaign. (Screenshot)

Rick Santorum’s unlikely presidential run ended today with a concession speech a short distance from the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg. He cited both God and Abraham Lincoln as he described his “miracle campaign” and lauded the average Americans he met along the way.

As Santorum reminisced about his run, so did we. Here are snippets of the concession speech — coupled with some Texas on the Potomac articles on Santorum that have run in the past year.

On Texas

Santorum: “…even today we have folks working for us in Texas to make it a winner-take-all primary because they wanna make sure that we have the best opportunity for Texas and conservatives to have a voice throughout the course of this primary.”

Santorum: “Against all odds we won 11 states. Millions of voters. Millions of votes. We won more counties than all the other people in this race combined. We were able to spread that message far and wide across this country. And what we found is that, well, we found that support, I found a deeper love for this country.”

Santorum: “Miracle after miracle. This race was as improbable as any you will ever see for president. I wanna thank God for that all of you, thank all of you across this country for what you have given, for hopefully not just me and our family but you’ve given a voice to those who are in many cases, voiceless.”

Santorum: “Two girls who put together a song in Tulsa, Oklahoma called “Game On” who have travelled and followed us around and over a million hits on YouTube of that catchy little tune they were inspired to give.”

Santorum: “Karen and I and the kids sat at the kitchen table and talked about our hopes and fears and concerns and we were very concerned about our role as being the best parents we possibly could to our children and making sure that they had a country that, well where the American dream was still possible.”

Santorum: “Amazing thing, that sweater vest. It happened on a night I was doing an event for Mike Huckabee in Des Moines and showed up and everyone was in suits and ties and I showed up in a sweater vest, and it turned out I gave a pretty good speech that night and all of a sudden the Twitter-verse went wild and said it must be the sweater vest.

From that point on the sweater vest became the official wardrobe of the Santorum campaign and the cool thing was we obviously have a big part of our campaign is the manufacturing base of the economy, so we of course sourced that sweater vest in a company that was making them here in the United States – it turned out we’re the best customer that Bemidji Woolen Mills has ever had in their entire history. ”